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Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29

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Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
NORFOLK.

The services of the Episcopal church will be resumed for the summer. They will be held in the Methodist church at 10.3O 8 m and p. m. The Rev Mir Barbour, of Hartford. will officiate next Sunday, July 3d, Rev MT George, of Salisbury, the Sunday following.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS NEDS NOTES.

The Hon. Patrick Egan has been elected
president of the Nebraska branch of the Irish
national league
voked for April Il.
The new Austrian minister to the United
States will not leave until March 10.
The Portuguese have captured Tumgi bay
but the rising in Mozambique still continues.
A grand military tournament is to be held
in Nice for the benefit of the earthquake
sufferers.
or Germany to mediate between him and
Portugal
Agents for the German government have
purchased 200 horses at Dungannon, Ireland,
at high prices.
Russia pretends 10 be not in the least con-
cerned at the views that the ameer of Afghan
istan is preparing for a holy war.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach's health is bad
and it is thought that he will soon resign the
chief secretaryship for Ireland.
The police of ST. Petersburg have closed up
a printing office and arrested the proprietor
and have also arrested a number of soldiers.
Father Beckx, general of the Jesuits, is
dead.
\ son has been born "a the crown princess
Of Denmark.
Frank ". Foster, town clerk and treasurer
If Greenfield, Mass, is a dcfaulter to the ex-
tent OF $1,000; cause, speculation.
The Canadian Pacific railway has COMPLETED
arrangements for a steamship connection with
China, and three vessels will be put on by
April.
-Four hundred coke workers on the Hickman
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railway in
PENNSYLVANIA nave struck because two carpen-
tiers were laid of.
The lower house OF the Rhode Island legis-
lature has voted to submit to the people q
constitutional amendment providing for
woman suffrage.
Although the Ohio river at Cincinnati stands
above the danger line, the city is Threatened
with a water famine from the ~clogging of the
pumping engines by mud and sand. No by
draulic elevators are allowed to run.
The banking capital of Canada is S61, 25S,-
135. The returns for January show an in
crease of s5,0O0,000 in deposits by the people
\ train on an Austrian railway struck an
engine at Franzenstadt, by which s%eventeea
persons were injured.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
SOME W4sUvGTOg NOTES

The following nominations were confirmed
by the senate just before adjournment:
Henry r. Harris, OF Georgia, third assist
ant postmaster general; D. H. Maury, OF
Virginia, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the United
States of the Republic OF Colombia; James
NJ. Trotter, of Massachusetts, recorder OF
deeds in the District OF Columbia; G. w.
Julian, OF Livington, Ind, surveyor gen.
eral of New Mexico; Chauncey r. Shultz, OF
Missouri, assistant treasurer of the United
States at st. Louis, Mo; Adolphus w.
Greedy, Fifth cavalry. Chief signal officer
with the rank OF brigadier general; Captain
James II. ellis, of the District OF Columbia,
to be commodore in the navy.
The postmaster general has made ar
rangements for a daily fast mail service be-
tween the east and the southwest. BY the
new arrangement Il special train OF postal
cars on the Pennsylvania line will leave
New York at s p. m. and will reach st.
Louis at 2:45 a. NJ. and the mail be trans
ferred at once to a special train OF postal
cars on the Missouri Pacific for Kansas
City, Omaha and other western points.
The following reappointments as pres
Dental postmasters were made on the 18th,
the senate having failed to act on the orig
inal nominations: VIM. T. Kirk, Atlanta,
H.; Wm. +. White, Barry, H.; Samuel p.
Tufts, Centralia, H.; Agnes Ross, Ravens
wood, ILL.,; Joel II. johnson, Woodstock,
H.; James P. Carleton, Iowa Falls. Ia;
Richard Burke, What Cheer. Ia; Geo. w.
Lewis, Black River Falls, Wis.
The supreme court has rendered a de-
cision in the case brought from Tennessee,
which involves the right OF one state or
municipality to impose a license tax on a
drummer or travelling salesman from an
other state seeking to sell goods by sample
or otherwise. The decision is that the
taxation is interference with interstate
commerce and is therefore unconstitutional.
The order Of the treasury department
directing that trade dollars to be redeemed
must be deposited in the sub-treasury
either at New York Or San Francisco,
called forth vigorous protests from holders
in Boston, New Orleans, St. Louis, and
from the west generally, and the depart
ment WI asked to recind that order. In
response to this demand Secretary Fair
child stated that immediate steps would be
taken by the department to provide for
the redemption OF the coins at any of the
sub-treasuries.
The rush OF travel to the west is taxing
the energies OF the B. & NJ. to furnish suff-
cient cars.
MAYOR MEANS, Of Grand Island, is a can
didate for reelection.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
BRIEFS BY THE WIRE.

General Malone declares himself as unal.
terably opposed to the reputation of one cent
OF the just Indebtedness of Virginia. and hopes
10 see the amount aScertained by the employ
ment of outside %financiers.
The Illinois Central railroad has given no
tice of its withdrawal from all pools on &c
count of the intestate commerce law.
The congregational clergymen of Chicago,
al their regular monthly meeting, declined to
send resolutions of coincidence to the family
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for fear that
tney would be considered as an Endorsement
OF mis- views on future salvation and punish
ment.
Judge Jackson Of the United States circuit
court has dissolved the injunction obtained by
the Baltimore and OHIO express company
against the Ohio and Mississippi railway.
4 vsgraRs lying in Jail at Augusta, Ken
lucky. was sold to the highest bidder for sew
e~nty-fve DAYS. He was knocked down for 81
To the jailer, who turned him loose.
Humphrey, Blake & Co., cotton commission
brokers of st. Louis, have failed with S40,O 600
liabilities and $4,000 assets. They expect to
resume soon.
Ina wholesale drug house at Des Moines, q
driver named Joseph rows killed Constable E..
- Logan. after Tue idlLcT Uiu STRUCK anu Hreu
at him. The officer showed no warrant to
search for beer, but had evidently entered the
store for that purpose, although three mem
bers OF the firm hold pharmacy permits.
The convention of school superintendent
VIII be held in Washington beginning next
Tuesday.
The recent earthquake at Nice caused such
a panic that h~otelkeepers are selling out at a
great sacrifice.
The license tax imposed in Tennessee on
statesmen from other states has been declared
unconstitutional by the United States SUI
preme court, as interfering with interstate
commerce
Seven thousand seven hundred and sixteen
applications for pensions have already been
died by Mexican veterans.
The 81. Paul road has let a contract for &C
extension Of its track from Merrill to Toma-
hawk lake, ffty-three miles, IN the way to
Lake Superior.
Matthew A. Manning of West Virginia ha.
been appointed chief of a division Of the
pension Office.
Three hundred and fifty stove molders of st.
Louis have struck for Is per cent increase IL
wages.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17

NV YORK. despatch OF the 7th: It was
a weary night that the member OF the
Beecher household passed last night. One
by one they would silently move in and out
OF the death chamber, taking their turns ut
the dreary vigil. DR.. Searle was at the post
OF duty without intermission until nearly 9
O'Clock, when he retired to his home. Mrs.
Beecher had kept watch over the sick man
most OF the night, fearing that he might
pass away in her absence. She did. how
ever, take Il few hours rest in 81 room adj
joining where the sufferer lay. At q o'clock,
when DR.. Searle went home, this bulletin
was issued:
Mr.. Beeeher has been gradually failing
during the night. His death is not, how-
ever. anticipated at present..
w. 5. SEARLE.
A meeting OF the parishioners of Plym-
outh church WAS held in the lecture room,
commencing at 3 p. m. The room was
crowded with male and female members OF
the congregation. and not "a few friends
from other churches, and there was scarce
~ "a dry eye to be seen from beginning to
end OF the proceedings. Mr.. Tiiney pre-
sided. The Rev. DR.. Halliday opened the
meeting with n moving prayer i'll which he
des' red that their beloved pastor might
not even be allowed to seem to suffer, but
that he might speedily attain to the rest
pTtDdIeu lOT htil. IituIliclb TeiltlEkS we're
made by n number present, and the follow
ing letter rom Mrs. Beecher was read:
To the beloved members OF Plymouth
Church: | cannot speak my thanks toeach
and all OF you for the sympathy and love
and devotion manifested in these last dark,
sad days for your pastor. He can no longer
speak TO you for himself. Then permit me
to do it for him, Tor myself, and for my
family. Each word of love from people SO
dear to O pastors heart has been n COM
Tort and "a balm to my heart. wrung almost
TO bursting. How he loved his church you
will only learn in it's fullness when you stand
with hIm in heaven. To each and every
one OF you my earnest thanks and most
earnest blessing. Pray for his wife and
children soon to lose the truest companion
and tenderest father, and if we must relin-
linquish all hope of his full recovery, o be-
loved. pray that his departure may be
speedy; that we may net long be agonized
by this struggle between life and death.
Pray if he must leave us that before an
other day dawns he nay receive his crown,
and be forever with his Lord.
EUNICE n. BEECHER.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
4 YOUTHFUL

A special from Louisville, KY, says news
has been received from IL lonely farming
community on Cats Fork, i'll Lawrence
county, of a terrible tragedy Samuel
Smith, aged 16, who had had some ditlicrl-
ty with "a n%eighbor, Stephen Hammond,
yesterday armed himself with ii revolver
and went over to Hamm"nd's, following
him into the house. Hammond then
reached for his rife, but Smith fired aud
killed him. Hammond's wife and children,
a boy and girl, attacked the murderer, but
he soon fatally wounded Mrs. Hammond,
and as the children attempted to escape he
filed them with balls. Thinking he had
killed the entire family he fed TO the noun
tains and has not yet been caught. Mrs.
Hammond will die and tue children may
not recover. 1t was hour after the shoot
ing before the %neighbors became attracted
by the cries Of the boy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
Advantages of Sunday School.

A Bostou lady prominently Unidentified with
Sunday school work, and who is much inter
ested in bringing our Chinese residents within
the pale of Christian influence, called the 9TH
er dav upon one of her celestial proteges.
John welcomed her visit to his laundry with
evident pleasure, and when the greetings were
over the Mongoiian. in response 10 her inquiry,
gave her to understand that he e~njoved very
much attending the SUNDAY school, informa-
ton that was exceedingly gratifying. Anxious,
however. to receive more practical demonstrs-
ton Of the influence of the school upon him,
she asked him if he did not think it did him
good. "Yi, VII" came the convincing response,
''washee fol lie whole CONGREGATION "-BOsto
Budgst.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
rHE rnEs1prsrs nIanr no sIas
Eaa He Agsx His Signature TO Bais Afier
ADJOURNMENT Of C0a0ressT

Washington special Representative
Bibnle Of South Carolina, who was chair
man "a the last congress Of the house COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds.
presented a brief 20 the president to-day
regarding the mueh-vexed question Of the
iatt@Fs sight TO sign bills after the adjourn
meat ~ congress. There are t~hirty-fve
bfis. Said Nr. Dbble. that passed both
lboHse- % congress-, and we think the presi-
dent has a perfect right to sign them il ho
ser at. have taken a great deal Of trou-
be 10 aunt up authorities in the case and
especial y since many Of the bills came from
ms committee, aud / naturally want to
sse them become laws. The proposition
act f1Fth ia my brief TO the pres dent WAS
that "a bill passed. by both houses OF con-
gnes- and presented 10 the president OF the
Gnitet States during the session, might be.
conie % law II he approved il within ten
daFs q Is presentation, whether congress
Was boz session at the time of his signing or
not. There IL bat one method in which the
president eau manifest his approval OF
a iH and that is by signing it.
Approved bills are never returned To con
gre,s. bat they 90 from the president to the
secretary % state. and consequently such
L5Is are not affected by any action of
congress 80 far as adjournment is con
cerue4 The bills presented TO him have
Al % them passed both houses OF congress-.
II there T. any vicious legislation in them
be- aHi withhold his approval, and such
bbI- iail. but A. TO Others which he regards
as aieritoriOus be simply gives effect to the
Viii II the people and the states expressed
by their respective representatives IN con
sres- ia matters which are for the gpod of
the country. u could never have been
contemplated that meritoriOus legislation
sbolsld thus be defeated when the senate
ans Eonse concur in their action and the
executive also approves. In my inter
VieW sits the president" concluded Mr..
Dibblr. ~he assured me that he would give
my brsef careful consideration, but would
not give ne even an inkling as to his de-
termination in the matter.
The salOonkeepers and brewers of New
YORK city have come TO an agreement and the
pod beer fight l. over.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
BLOWN TO 4TOHS.
Fate Of a Careless Toung IIaIt ia q Dyna-
mite EUcforn.

Fate of a Careless Toung IIaH ia q Dyn0-
mite Factory.
New FORK dispatch: The dynamite works
OF Mrs. Mary A. Ditmar, at Bay Chester,
on Long Island South, blew up for the fifth
time at 1 O'Clock to-day, killing one man
and leveling the building to the ground.
The explosion was in the mixing house.
The only person in the house at the time
was Henry Altinger, a German laborer,
aged %. He was adding the chemicals to
a vat OF expl osives. The vessel was open
at the top and was lined with cad. In the
manufacture of this mixture it is necessary
to keep the temperature down TO a certain
point. The operator evidently allowed the
temperature TO rise too high and the
explosion followed. There were about
600 pounds OF glycerine in the yes
sci, enough to blow the house and
everything it contained to atoms. The
building was about 1924 feet in dimen-
siOns and two stories high, built OF rough
boards. and there is not a vestige OF it left
except a small block of splinters about
three or four inches. long. The site Of the
building is marked by a hole about ten Ieet
deep and twenty in diameter. The deto-
nation was heard twenty-five miles. The
shock was heard in all surrounding villages
and the people ran out OF their houses in a
panic, thinking it an earthquake. Win
dows were broken nearly q mile away. The
unfortunate young mans body could not
all be found. Coroner Tice gathered up
up some teeth, the skull and a foot, which
were put into a package and were viewed
by the jury, which was Immediately sum-
moned.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17

board OF l~ar,iOns. Mrs. Sinyihc anl Mrs. Nc
Malioii, preiurcd witnesses in the Ford-Mur-
ply murder case. will lie released from the pen.
i~icntiary carly in April, after one years SER
vice at hard labor.
The tenants on the estate OF the lord lieu
tenant of ireland accepted a reduction of 10
per cent, after demanding three times that
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17
an As7I-RzND4LL MOVEMENT.

New YORK special: There is a decided
movement on foot among southern and
southwestern members OF congress to pre-
vent the appointment OF Mr.. Randall as
chairman OF the committee on a~ppropria-
tons. This movement arises, first, from
the desire to avoid the narrow escape by
Which the important appropriation bills
were pulled through; and secondly, because
many of the older members are tired OF
submitting to the dictatorial manner in
which the Pennsylvania rules the house.
The members who failed to satG;e the
passage of bills in which they were
particularly interested are almost
unanimos in laying the blame at the
door of Randall. who controlled
legislation through the power vested in
him by his craftsmanship. There is little
doubt that Mr.. Carlisle will have a major
ity of the democratic votes in the caucus.
but the members referred to above will
first insist upon a pledge that randall
shall be provided with a craftsmanship
elsewhere than in one position which gives
him so much power. Mr.. Carlisle friends
think that in view of the widespread dis
satisfaction in the democratic party over
Mr.. Randall's course in handling the ap-
preparation bills which resulted in the de-
feat of the deficiency appropriation as
well as all fortifcation bills, he VIII accede
and give the required promise.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17

The will of George Hutchins Of Ancora, n.
j., bequeathing $4,000 to Henry George 70,
the dissemination of literature on social lib
erty, has been admitted to probate.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-03-17

b saiOonkeepers and brewers Of New
YORK city have come to an agreement and the
pool beer fight Is over.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-17

thew died or we're disposed OF in some
manner. And to still make his argu-
ment more plausible he said that the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company offered such good
facilities that they were easily shipped
TO Stroudsburg and would be as soon as
a carload was sold. After pony had
been selected he would inform the pur-
chaser that he must have the required
amount of money to pay the freight on
il. at the same time stating that oil rail-
road companies under the new law
compelled shippers to pay in advance,
and that the money they paid was not
for the pony, but simply to defray or
cover the expenses OF getting them
to the purchaser. In that way he
would get the required amount
of money OF each purchaser. Du-
ring his conversation he produced
the best references, including names
OF citizens familiar with those he was
dealing with at the time. Those whom
he swindled say that his story appeared
to be true as Gospel, and that he told
it so nicely that all Of his victims were
sure they would get pony for the pal
try sum of So. Last week was the time
when the ponies were to arrive, and
consequently a number went to the sta
ton to get them. They returned home
sorely disappointed but wiser men. 1t
is said that about twenty-five persons
have fallen victims to the pony swim
dlo
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-17
Hungarian Music.
fB.ackwOod.l


Did the Tziganes bring their music
ready made into Hungary, or did they
find IT there on their arrival, and mere
ly adopt it is question occasioning
much controversy. List is inclined
to think the former, which would mean
that no Hungarian music existed pre-
vious to the advent of the gypsies in
the country. That this music is essen
tally OF an Asiatic character is, how
ever, no positive proof in favor OF this
theory for are not the Hungariansthem
selves an outwandered Asiatic race ?
And what more natural than the sup
position that one Asiatic race should
be the best interpreter of the music OF
a kindred people ? More likely, how
ever, this music is the unconscious joint
production of the two, the Tzigane
being the artist who has sounded the
depth of the Hungarian nature and
given expression to it. l remember
once asking a distinguished Polish
lady, herself notable musician, and
pupil Of the great Chopin, whether she
ever played Hungarian music. "No,"
she answered, II cannot play it there
is something i'll that music which |
have not got something which is
wanting in me-" What was wanting |
came to understand later, when / De-
came familiar with Hungarian music
ss rendered by the Tzigane players.
1t was the training of gypsy's whole
life which was waiting here--a train
ing which alone teaches the secret of
dcciphering those wild strains which
seem borrowed from the voice of the
tempest or stolen from the whispering
reeds. In order to have played the Hun
garan music Alright she would have
required TO have slept on mountain
tops during score of years, TO have
been awakerei by falling dews, TO have
shared the food Of eagles and squirrels,
and have been on equally familiar
tern with stays aid IN ,kes--condi-
tons which unfortunately lie quite out
OF the reach OF delicate Polish ladies.
Adintank- General Dram IN sa;d IN ba